Mary Livermore 1820 – 1905, American journalist, abolitionist, and advocate of women’s rights

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She married Daniel P. Livermore, a Universalist minister in May 1845, and in 1857, they moved to Chicago. She published a collection of nineteen essays entitled Pen Pictures in 1863. As a member of the Republican party, Livermore campaigned for Abraham Lincoln in the 1860 presidential election.

During the Civil War, she volunteered as an associate member of the United States Sanitary Commission. As agent of its Northwestern branch, she attended a council of the national sanitary commission at Washington in December 1862, organized many aid societies, visited army posts and hospitals, and in 1863, organized the North-western Sanitary Fair in Chicago which raised $86,000. President Lincoln donated his own copy of the Emancipation Proclamation, which was auctioned off at $10,000.

After the war she devoted herself to the promotion of women’s suffrage (along with Lucy Stone and Julia Ward Howe ) and the temperance movement, founding in Chicago in 1869 The Agitator, which in 1870, after she moved to Boston, was merged into the Woman’s Journal, of which she was an associate editor until 1872.

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General Grant, wife and son, City Point VA. 1865

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General Grant, seated in uniform, looks up from signing some document. His wife Julia stands in profile in the doorway.

Although there is no maker’s imprint, this is a genuine period albumen print on a genuine period cabinet card mount. Probably a period copy print.

No damage. Pencil notation in modern hand on bottom margin.

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